# HG changeset patch # User Anton Shestakov # Date 1573414434 -25200 # Node ID 1765fd925fc19668cbe35b855db5237d64a5dded # Parent 3e748357a05503721950c22de6d9a6d811b9c4e3 docs: revision numbers are technically stable From `hg help glossary`: "Note that the revision number may be different in each clone of a repository." But cloning the same repo multiple times yields the same result, and that shows that revision numbers are stable. diff -r 3e748357a055 -r 1765fd925fc1 docs/sharing.rst --- a/docs/sharing.rst Sun Nov 10 05:14:53 2019 +0700 +++ b/docs/sharing.rst Mon Nov 11 02:33:54 2019 +0700 @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ (You may notice a change in notation from the user guide: now changesets are labelled with their revision number and the first four digits of the 40-digit hexadecimal changeset ID. Mercurial revision -numbers are never stable when working across repositories, especially +numbers are not consistent when working across repositories, especially when obsolescence is involved. We'll see why shortly.) Now let's switch to ``test-repo`` to test our change::